Pocket construction



June 4, 1963 H. H. ANDREWS POCKET CONSTRUCTION Filed March 17, 1961 INVENTOR Hugh H. Andrews.

ATTORNEY rates This invention relates to a pocket construction for a garment and particularly to a patch-type pocket.

The principal object of this invention is to provide an improved patch-type pocket in which the patch piece is made from a single piece of material and folded to provide a protective overlying flap for the opening in the garment pocket which is near the top of the pocket construction.

Other objects and advantages of my invention will be seen from the following specification and from the drawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a front view of a patch pocket embodying my invention and showing it as applied to a piece of garment material;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the patch pocket is made and indicated thereon are the several fold lines;

FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the patch pocket showing the initial folding and stitching operations;

FIG. 4 is a plan View of the patch pocket in a further completed state;

FIG. 5 is a vertical sectional view through the same;

FIG. 6 is a plan view of the patch pocket in completed folded state ready to be applied to the garment piece as shown in FIG. 1; and,

FIG. 7 is a vertical sectional view through the same.

To better understand the drawing, the code of the structure iines is as follows: the long dash and dot lines are fold lines; the heavy short dash lines are stitch lines in full view; the light short dash lines are concealed stitch lines; and the light dash lines of greater length represent concealed structure.

In the drawing, the numeral 10 designates a patch pocket in its complete form and attached to a piece of garment material 11 as shown in FIG. 1. The numeral 12 in FIG. 2 represents a single piece blank from which the patch pocket is constructed and terminates in a lower tapered or biased edge 12a conventional with pocket constructions.

In constructing the pocket, a longitudinal transverse slit 13 is cut into the blank 12 about mid-way the length thereof and is intercepted by relatively short vertical slits 14 in the ends thereof, thus severing out flaps 15 which are folded rearwardly along fold line 16 and upon the blank 12 to provide upper and lower hems 17 and 18, and stitched in place at 17a and 18a thus defining the upper and lower edges of an elongated rectangular pocket opening 19.

To provide an overlapping flap for the opening 19, a fold line is located about mid-way between the opening 19 and the upper edge of the blank 12, and the material above the fold line 20 is initially folded downwardly from said fold line to lie in back of the blank 12 and then seamed by a line of stitching 21 along its folded edge to provide a double ply flap 22 as noted in FIG. 3. This double ply flap 22 is then folded forwardly and downwardly from a fold line 23 immediately above the Patented June 4, 1963 ice pocket upper hem 17 to overlie the pocket opening 19. The front ply of this flap extends above the fold line 23 to provide an edge which may be folded under to adapt the upper portion of the pocket construction to be stitched to a garment piece.

It is to be noted in FIG. 4 that the raw or ravel edge of the blank 12 is still exposed, and to provide suitable hems around the entire perimeter of the blank, the edges of the pocket are folded or creased rearwardly and upon themselves along the fold line 24 for the top edge of the pocket, along the fold lines 25 for the side edges of the pocket and along the biased fold lines 26 at the lower edge of the pocket.

After the above folding operation has taken place, the patch pocket is then in the state as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 and is ready to be applied to a garment at some predetermined position. When properly positioned, it may be secured to the garment piece 11 by a peripheral line of stitching 27 around the four sides of the patch pocket, as shown in FIG. 1.

Also, after the pocket piece is attached to the lower opposite corners of the overlying flap 22, it may be bar tacked as at 28 to further secure said flap to the garment to withstand the strains to which the flap is subjected when one is reaching into the pocket.

It will be observed that -I have provided a safety type patch pocket made from a single piece of material by having the pocket closed on all four sides, and the flap having an extensive overlap relative to the pocket opening as an assurance that articles will not be dropped or lost from the pocket when a person is stooping over.

The improved pocket is also economical in its use of material due to the formation of the same. It will be understood that the pocket may also be varied in size and the components thereof may be varied as to proportion and structural details.

What I claim is:

A pocket comprising a garment piece, a single piece of patch pocket material of generally rectangular shape and having an elongated rectangular horizontal opening therein in the upper portion of said piece with the longitudinal edges of said opening hemmed and stitched, the material beyond the upper edge of said opening being folded along a horizontal line intermediate its length and stitched along such horizontal fold to provide a flap of double ply material with the free edge extending slightly below the top edge of the opening, said flap of double ply material being folded forwardly and downwardly to extend from a fold line immediately above the upper hemmed edge of said opening so as to overlie said opening, the front ply of said flap extending beyond said fold line to provide an edge, said pocket material as thus folded having all four edges of the perimeter folded underneath and upon itself, said single piece pocket material in such folded state being stitched to said garment piece along all four edges to provide the garment with a patch pocket having an overlapping flap whose side edges are held down by stitching.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 234,487 Marcus Nov. 16, 1880 1,599,688 Sullivan Sept. 14, 1926 1,780,356 Liberman Nov. 4, 1930 2,432,378 Burton Dec. 9, 1947 2,718,640 Suckle Sent. 27.. 1955 

